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Women have deaalt with this since b4 when..
It is called "being on the rag", right?
That first DM wasn't just homophobic, he also fetishized queerness. When he heard the word "gay", his only understanding was "gay bars, gay clubs, gay orgies". It didn't seem to occur to him that gay attraction is the same as straight attraction; that crushes, love, romance, etc. are all part of it, not just wild sex. His concept of sexuality is "all gay people are gay porn characters, they're not real humans".
That's gross on so many levels.
Wait gay people are real? I thought this shit was all a joke
@@gandalfissusthey can only be found in gay bars, which since those don’t exist in that guys world, it clearly means gay people don’t either. Not sure why it’s so hard to understand 🤷♂️
Its the same with how many conservatives associate the "gays" for groomers. They fetishism them so much they think the gays only care about sex therefore they should never ever interact with children.
Sounds like, from his attempts at getting the character to hook up, with brothels and forced marriage, dude had a bad concept of sex and relationships in general. Have pity on the unexpecting person if that guy dates.
It could also be that he was raised very conservatively and taught that gay people just did all those things. That that's what the "gay lifestyle" was. I've seen people preach and teach those sorts of things. That often plays a party in why people (especially religious people) tend to feel they need "saving". Not just because being gay itself is a sin, but because being gay means doing all these absurdly debaucherous things that would be a sin even if they were straight. Which is, of course, completely bullshit, but if that's what you've been taught all your life, that's what you're going to believe. Idk if that counts as fetishizing.
It’s kind of wild how different games of DND go when it’s a bunch of people who didn’t know each other prior
It can go pretty well in my admittedly rare experience. It can also go horribly, in my admittedly more frequent experience.
These videos make me so grateful for my group. Bunch of strangers that met on Reddit and we recently passed our one year mark for our current campaign
The wacky thing is that this can even be true when you do know the group pretty well since some people can be WAY different as a DM or player then they are as a person, sometimes it changes from one campaign to the next. I had one DM who was great to play with in my first ever campaign... and then we moved on to our second campaign after the first one ran into issues since one of the party members couldn't join for further sessions and the DM sold us on a new campaign he had been working on for quite some time, and Oh boy was that campaign a nightmare for everyone involved. Basic jist, he pulled a complete 180 from being a cool and chill DM that was great for a first time player to a controlling and manipulative DM who wanted to make sure we played his campaign his way, even ran into an issue like in the first story where the DM tried to force a childhood friend from my character's backstory onto our party's Alchemist (he had something against me for some reason, so crap like this was sadly rampant.) The whole thing literally ended with a bang as the Alchemist threatened to blow them both up if the DM didn't stop, the DM did not realize that was not a bluff, and he went for the cop out solution of rewinding time so that "didn't happen." It was super whack because this was also the same DM that let me wrestle a Dire Boar into submission and use it as a mount (I was a pretty strong Dwarf Barbarian in the first campaign,) among other fun and cool things 🤔
Is there like an online game for dnd
@@homerman76 Any sort of writing involves being willing, when necessary, to abandon what seems to the writer like a wonderful story idea if it just doesn't fit into the project at hand. (Sometimes it can be used in another project, sometimes it can't. Just part of writing.) It's _especially_ true in a collaborative storytelling medium like a D&D campaign -- a DM who clings too strongly to "their" story which just _has_ to unfold in line with their perfect vision is almost guaranteed to make a miserable experience for everyone. I'd guess that your DM cared more personally about the story in the second campaign, and wasn't ready to give up control. (For anyone who likes to be a DM: if you have a story that you're invested enough that having it cut to pieces, shuffled, and reassembled into something unrecognizable as your original vision will be a problem, write that story in another format instead!)
One red flag I've noticed is when the story seems to be _about_ the DM's favorite NPC(s).
As a queer man, "Adventuring" and "Killing monsters" is just code for "Gay Orgy" apparently. Gotta love that mindset.
Seriously, the closest thing to a character of mine's sexuality coming up was a Dwarf Wizard I played in a Quest game who on occasion would write love letters to his husband back home (I figured out he was married during play. Actually I figured out he was gay during play)
I'm a gay man, I'm really into shipping and love queer media. ANY AND EVERY time I'm asked about my characters sexualities my gut reaction is always "These are my babies and they are to young to date."
If I had a nickel for everytime I saw a player on DnDHorrorStories try to make a period system, I would have 2 nickle. Which isn't alot but it's weird that it happened twice.
Some people just need tables for everything.... But yeah, I generally avoid bodily functions in my games, players have to eat but besides that, I don't see how they add anything to the game.
Don't try to overthink things unless it is relevant to the story but if the female barbarian RPs that she has PMS and is a bit angry at everything, let her but don't make any specific rules for it.
And bloody well never tells a female player that she has a modifier on a roll due to PMS, you would deserve what is coming your way in that case.
@@loke6664 Exactly, well said
Ya know what I found weird.. . is like, why is it a thing... we're talking where even the most realistic of tables.. days to weeks pass on travels with a single dice roll, and a town visit could be days to months with stuff being sorted out.
I mean... it's just .... weird, I think there is a reason we don't have rulesets for bodily wastes. >.> like .... I'm more concerned about someone thinking about it, and not ya know assuming it gets dealt with onced the bodies hit the floor and the tents get closed up, or with ... magic because d&d.
@@DePhoegonIsle Yeah, the only time I seen anything like that ever being used is when the DM suddenly tells you that your character needs to pee when the group is camping at night and he/she wants a an ambusher to catch you with your pants down.
It really all comes down to pacing. We don't want to RP every single tiny detail. You might RP the dinner the king have in the players honor after saving the princess but otherwise the DM just say "scratch a days ration" or "1 silver for food" and even that is usually just done in situations where food consumption is important or the players are poor so a silver would matter.
We prefer focusing on the fun stuff, but that of course can depend a bit on the campaigns focus.
I for instance run a campaign at the moment where my Isekaied players run an inn, so food, ingredients, the music of the bard and so on is rather detailed while combat is very fast and generic since it isn't the focus of the campaign, usually it is the other way around.
Roleplaying is all about telling a fun story so skip or generalize anything that doesn't help you with that and focus on the good stuff.
Getting FATAL vibes where there’s a roll to see how many times you fart in a day
To me the menstrual cycle debuf story is just a bit...weird. Because it's more or less a ordinary bodily function that can be good character flavor, but to put such emphasis on it is strange because you don't normally factor in debuffs for other bodily functions. Like I'm not going to go to the DM and go "Hey, my character hasn't peed in six hours and I want you to have me roll debuffs because my character is busting for a piss." Like, why would you feel a need to emphasize that?
One of my players once rolled to fart. He failed and pooped his pants.
Good times.
@@genericname2747, writes _"_One of my players once rolled to fart. He failed and pooped his pants."_
Your player was bored -- you should work on that.
@@fred_derf No, the farting was to distract a monster that was blind. He ended up throwing his pants to deal poison damage.
@@genericname2747 A similar thing happened in a game I was in! We teased both in and out of character for the rest of the campaign. (The player was laughing to, I assure you)
What if you'd make morning wood a thing in a dnd session
For that second story, the guy was 100% fetishising it. Without a doubt
Or trying (and failing) to prove that women make bad adventurers.
...Even the first story today was the guy fetishising something they shouldn't...
Oh, absolutely
@@JacobL228This was my first thought 😅😅
The OP in the first story should have instantly asked the DM "Why are you thinkin' about gay sex, DM?"
I think my "favorite" DM using my gender against me moment was when I played a Warlock and was made to roll on the wild magic table after every spell I used cuz "hormones will mess with your magic" effectively turning by bamf Hexblade into a very nerfed hormonal wreck of a wild magic sorc with out any of the good parts. I left mid session.
Big yikes at that first DM.
D&D is a role playing game, and no one should be trying to force anyone into any kind of relationship/encounter that they aren't comfortable roleplaying. Personally, I play all of my characters as asexual, because that's what's most comfortable for me. If my DM tried to force my any of my characters into sexual relationships, I would not be comfortable with that, and I wouldn't go along with it.
😂
@@FrejthKing is your entire personality just that time you watched the joker movie?
i'm not asexual but i notice that inadvertedly i tend to make my PCs asexual for the same reason.
I tend to play my characters as either asexual or "just not happening" to have their love life become relevant, because that's just not a story arc I'm interested in with most of my characters. (OTOH, I've had great fun with one or two of my characters playing wing-person for another PC, whether competently or incompetently.)
My first two characters both started off as bards and then multi-classed out of it, but they were bandmates. One of them a lightfoot halfling who was the guitarist that became a warlock, was asexual and was in love with the other character. She was an Aasimar singer who became a paladin, but she was aromantic, and while she cared about the halfling, and would have happily gotten into a physical relationship with him, she didn't have the romantic attraction. On the plus side, he found a lovely dwarf lady in Gauntlgrym who was a relative of Bruenor, and they adopted a bunch of war orphans together.
the wildest part of that first story is that the player was very openly Not trying to have sex with *ANY* characters the DM was just OBSESSED WITH CONVERTING HIM? DID NOT EVEN FLIRT WITH THE OTHER PLAYER CHARACTERS?
oh the period one is definitely a fetish thing…
For sure
Glad someone said it lol
Nah, he was probably trying to make the point that woman make bad adventurers. Donald Trump said the same thing about Hillary Clinton (who has already gone through menopause).
In my experience menstruating would propably drop my charisma, but make my perception go through the roof cause I can smell and hear so much better and that drives me into rage and that would give an added bonus to my Attack role or something XD
And for me it would do nothing to my rolls.
Fiction tends to either forget that's an option, or it's probably what female characters get when bodily functions aren't relevant to the story.
not Wisdom? cuz Rationality taking a hit?
That first DM misheard the phrase and thought it was "Play the gay away"
Literally made me laugh out loud, dude! xD
Props to Duke for knowing when to keep his mouth shut and leave let a qualified party have the floor. 👏
heh, it's more like ..there was nothing to say.. and the 'I can't have an opinion on x' is fucking tired.. It was stupid on stupid, on stupid. like X.x I would be concerned that's the thing you think about in a fantasy game where days & weeks pass with a sentance. X.x
That player needs help.
Yes, but at the same time, he chose to include it on a show where he is, at least, the co-host, if not the main host (since it is his channel). Obviously he does not have personal experience with it, but I would have liked to hear his perspective as a DM or fellow player regarding someone doing this. Not INSTEAD of Amy's, as she is obviously, as you said, much more qualified to talk about it, ESPECIALLY the physical experience of having it.
Idk, I understand the idea of people stepping aside in situations like this, but at the same time, people have opinions. You can't CHOOSE to have your brain not form an opinion, just choose whether or not you voice or act on it. As long as you recognize the inherent limitations of your opinion, I think it's usually ok to talk about it in a respectful manner. At the very least, you might learn something when someone explains to you the inaccuracies of your assumptions. But this is also coming from a straight white man, so it's not like I've experienced being the victim of this very often.
Just being a woman doesn't make her qualified. She's a therapist, not a gynecologist.
@@JacobL228Jacob...
@@Ashai I ain't goin there but, that's the line of though you actually get when you start playing with 'Oh, but you aren't qualified to have an opinion, because immutable trait'
It's kinda funny in a dumb way, and even dumber in another. (A therapist would be qualified to talk about such matters, because the body is complex and such things have an impact even in that area for some)
Something similar happened to me once:
So my character was asexual, I never outright stated that, but something I did say was that they'd only ever consider other aarakocras (my character was an aarakocra himself). Fast forward in the campaign, he forces my character to be attracted to a human seductress type character because I failed a check or something??? And then later in the campaign he forced my character to have sex with a Roc... the huge birds...
Oh by the way I was also a minor at the time, and he was considerably older if not adult himself.
That’s so wrong on so many levels
😂
@@FrejthKing Groomers should probably stay off of social media.
🤢 YIKES
Have your character swear an oath of celibacy for flavour, but dang that sucks pal.
Personally, I'm petty enough for story 1 to screenshot the final conversation with DM and share it with the other players because the seemed to be on OP's side. Burn that whole campaign down 😂
Honestly same but only because otherwise it seems hella fake
@@kingwildcat6192000 To be fair, I don't think they would think it's fake, especially when the DM tried to force him into a marriage and wouldn't take anyone else.
@fluffymonster396 honestly the only reason I think it's fake is because whenever someone has been upfront on the sexuality of their character it's turned into a dumpster fire. Like I have no hate on op and if this happened to him that's shifty, but without proof like a simple snap shot of what he said in discord, I just don't think it happened the way OP claims or at all.
@@fluffymonster396 yeah. I wasn't saying to screenshot as proof of the story. I believe it very likely could've happened. more of a spite thing
@@kingwildcat6192000I kinda know firsthand that some people can't bear queerness even in TTRPG, and some people can be VERY petty about that, soooo I don't see any reason not to believe this story imo
As a girl into D&D, it's more than a bit sus that they wanted to play on a girl's period. I for one like realism in games, but that's giving me squick vibes right there.
Fr 😂 If periods were a thing to factor in I’d say my character wasn’t on theirs..or just goes long af periods of time without one 🤷 I ain’t dealing with all that
I actually had the reverse happen to me.. one of my charaters (female) was straight... and some players decided: "She's gay now"
The lesbian charater tried several times to flirt with my charater with them getting slightly upset and I go: "She's straight." Then they decided to say a line... and I swear I am not making it up:
"They never been in bed with a woman like my charater. It would convince her to change."
...Yes.... they did the "Gay charater is really straight, cuase they never been with a real man before" but in REVERSE.
Told them to knock it off... they ain't gay. I am not comfortable playing gay charaters (for the 10th time)
Luckily they never played victim or anything. So it ended there... but some players did try to "ship my charater" with some females.. but never was there any flirting.
It's kinda weird how to see this DM try to make a gay charater straight like... YIKES! Atleast in my scenerio the DM strictly stayed out of it, but it was clear they did not want to say anything..
It sucks when people try to ship characters into relationships that go against their clear sexuality, regardless of what that is, especially since some of the cases happen when that character is in a clear committed relationship... Shippers be crazy...
Why do people struggle so much to understand sexuality. Can we all just be normal about this.
Nearly every game I play with one of my groups results in all the characters trending toward omni-sexual, regardless of their original orientation or the orientation of their player. The difference is that nobody is FORCING anyone to do that. It's a group that's played together for years and we just constantly (some more than others) turn situations into dirty innuendo about our characters (or npcs) trying to sleep with all kinds of random things. Sometimes those jokes end up becoming canon if everyone finds them funny enough.
But doing it when someone is clearly no ok with it is bad form and should not be done.
@@genericname2747 I blame centuries of human society with specific inheritance rules. That's my theory as to why the idea of monogamy, "soul mates", permanent marriage, and saving yourself for marriage came from. People wanted to make sure they knew who's baby was whose for inheritance and legal purposes and that's a lot easier to do if you only ever have sex with one other person and have children with them.
No social awareness, and weird fetishization of another person's character
It's very telling about the first DM that his impression of what gay people do is cruising, gay bars and orgies. It doesn't seem to ever occur to him that a gay person might just have a normal ass relationship with a person they like. It really feels like maybe he has never interacted with a gay person before.
normal???
Oof...
That first DM was lucky. I have yet to see a DM sued for sexual harassment, but this guy could've been the first!
That second story...WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?
What a messed up homophobic DM in the first one! 😱 He really should have said up front that he wasn't welcoming and saved the player the heartbreak.
In real life, I'm asexual. I have no issue with one of my characters being any given sexual orientation, but I typically play underage characters if/when I want to avoid the topic entirely. That way, the character can be whatever they are without it coming up in-game. A lot of the time, though, I see it as a roleplaying game and if there's a situation where it would make sense for a certain character to be romantic with another, I'm not allergic to that happening. It just depends on what makes sense for the story. At least my DM has the sense to not try to force anything like that. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't. It's not a difficult concept to grasp.
Cool.
I usually play animal characters (like the frog and owl people) and people don't usually want to romance those characters.
That's actually pretty smart. I'm aromantic and asexual, and my group doesn't do sexual/romantic relationships, but if I ever join one who does, I'll be using the underage character thing.
@@appletree13 there is only rage aaaaaaaa
@@janaejoaodosacramento9731 More like chaos 😂
I had a DM who told me she would kill my character if I didnt have them "pick a gender." The character was non-binary. Anyway, not at that table anymore. For a lot of reasons.
This is a world with squid people and robots. But apparently a non-binary person is too hard to accept.
@@genericname2747 big facts. Like they were already basically a little forest spirit kinda thing, so why would they gender?
@@genericname2747 In Fallen London, your character is asked "May we ask whether you're a lady or a gentleman?" -- and one of the responses is "My dear sir, there are individuals roaming the streets of Fallen London at this very moment with the faces of squid! Squid! Do you ask them their gender? And yet you waste our time asking me trifling and impertinent questions about mine? It is my own business, sir, and I bid you good day."
@@M_M_ODonnell I love Fallen London
I didn't have the time to watch these video as the time they went up, but just out of curiosity and nothing more: Did you already define the character's birth assignment before they realized they were non-binary? It's not fun to compromise on these types of things but I think the DM just wanted to know what genitals you had - which, in itself, is kinda red-flaggy when phrased as such, and they probably knew that, but didn't know how to express it differently, so they just didn't try.
Wife is amazing and I love how she's always so compassionate toward the people in the horror stories, even the ones that are presented like jerks.
I played a gay paladin. Afterwards, the DM told me it made him feel uncomfortable. Later on in the campaign. It came up again. I tried to not get as into it as i didnt want to upset the DM. But the DM went for it instead. Thinking it was fine as he raised the topic, I went with it. Then he tried to insinuate it would break my oath... it was weird. Never could find the relevant tenet.
I'm ace and usually play my characters as somewhere along those lines. I have recently started playing a pan character, but so far it's fairly comfortable as the idea of romance hasn't really come up in-game (tonight's our fourth session). When I've played female characters, I usually portray them as gay, or at least as attracted to women, since that's what I know to communicate. All that is to say that no one should be forced to play a character in a way they don't know or aren't comfortable with. Also, screw that DM.
Omg could you imagine a berserker with pms?? I know for me personally on those days i could tear a wall down with out half trying lol
That first DM sounds like a horrible person inside/outside of the game. As for the 2nd story, very odd but the best part was the silly smile on Duke's face while Wife was talking about the weird player.
+Wynnter420, writes _"That first DM sounds like a horrible person inside/outside of the game."_
I'm sure he will settle down once he decides to come out to his friends and family...
So the first one gives me flashbacks to my very unaccepting childhood as a lesbian who was outed my senior year in highschool and parents who we're mortified because it inconvenience them and brought sham to the family.
The second I just don't get, I mean yes I can understand the the debilitating aspects as someone who has endometriosis, but that doesn't mean it is all negative. I also become very over protective during that time as well as other things which would be an asset.
I’m the only woman in my group, but the guys I play with are great and it basically never comes up. However… In our first campaign, Tomb of Annihilation, one of the other guy’s male gnoll character drank from a pool of water and turned into a female gnoll. Right after that we discovered another effect of the pool water was *instant disintegration,* so he decided to not risk drinking again to try and change back.
I was playing a female Druid at the time, and once our characters were back out in the hallway, I had her ask the party, “Do female gnolls have a menstrual cycle?”
Absolute chaos ensued, the likes of which I have only caused one time since, and that was when I had my ranger ask about how much we owed in taxes. 😛
The Gay charger sorry was actually tamer than I thought, lol. When he mentioned "fixing" him, I was all ready for the DM to say that after a Greater Restoration the character was "cured" and no longer gay or something like that! 😅 Glad I was wrong!
Wow. That first story is ridiculous. I have been a gaming with my group for a long time and I’m still very cautious about bringing sex elements into the game. I let the players be the main driver if it pops up and not me just crowbaring it into the story. And I’d definitely never use it to grandstand and try some weird conversion therapy on a PC or let alone a player (as this kind of sounds like).
That last one made me think "does that mean a female barbarian with PMS could have a continual rage for days?"
Like Amy (sp?) said, it could be interesting....but why? Do you not have enough to keep track of?
That was my first thought too 😂 just continuous rage
Thinking back, I have played, Hetero-, A-, Homo-, Bi- and Pan-Sexual characters. It was always a back and forth with the DM (and the party) to figure out what everyone was comfortable with.
What the first DM did was terrible but, if agreed with in advance, I think it would be hilarious to play a gay character who constantly gets hit on by the opposite sex. Like make your character completely oblivious to the flirting, they’re just being nice to people in the bar and when they think you’re about to go with them just go to a room with someone of the same sex and leave the NPC devastated.
with the first story i could kinda see what the dm was doing as a "ha ha, these stright people are hitting on the gay person, thats wacky" then at the brother owner i was like "huh i mean taking the joke a little far, but you know maybe the dudes handsom you know" at the noble i was like "yea that makes sense, the noble isn't used to people telling him no, and they marry daughters off all the time" but then the whole conversion convo happend and i was like "ohhhh heeelllll no"
oh that PMS thing was definitely a fetish for that guy
me: Why can't Duke put his input for the second story?
also me after hearing the 2nd story: Oh...ok yea, that checks out 😅
DM in the first story sounded like he fantasizes about gay bars
"tHeRe'S nO gAy PeOpLe In A fAnTaSy WoRlD"
Me: *letting my friend's gay druid bang a detective grung just because they had a good conversation at the tavern*
Did they have to roll constitution for the poison skin???
@@projectcrowned6850 better, he casted protection from poison (or something like that, I'm not good with the names
@@snowfella7426 well than i have some plans
@@projectcrowned6850 sound's like somebody gonna have a fun night today lmao
Groomer
Should have let that menstruating fighter use rage as a free action.
Guy was cruising the "All periods are PMS" page on TVtropes.
Ah a classic, homophobe sexualizing gay peoples existence. Some people are genuinely still not over the old "its a choice they made because they're sexual deviants" bs, therefore every innocuous thing we do somehow is sexual and inappropriate.
As someone who identifies specifically as a homoaesthetic homoromantic demigreysexual, I knew I’d find the first story to be mouth-gapingly cringe before clicking the video.
The DM’s uncouth behaviour wasn’t just homophobic; it was vicariously delivered sexual harassment and, by extension, sexual abuse. That kind of attitude just isn’t tolerable anymore (not that it ever should’ve been in the first place).
The Redditor absolutely made the right call in dropping out, and the other players stepping in to assist in-character shows there were _some_ good eggs in the group, at least. Here’s hoping they find/found a more open-minded, all-inclusive DM. 💗
after what wife said. my stupid mind went to " Menstrual barbarian, blood rage!" why
I love how he gets as far as "homophobic DM" and Wife is already like "oh god I'm gonna hate this" lol. No one likes homophobic DMs.
Peeps gotta get more comfortable with just saying no and leaving.
I can understand wanting to try to make things work, though, or seeing small red flags and choosing to ignore them. Sometimes people are just weird, but don't mean bad.
if some one wanted to rp having a period (I'm a girl btw) I would go with needing a potion or tea blend every few hours to feel right and the higher chance of attracting wildlife. that said I generally don't put it in rps. only a few species would have it anyway. it's just in case a player playing a human asks.
Higher chance of attracting wildlife is an interesting thought!
@@lauraw2526, writes _"Higher chance of attracting wildlife is an interesting thought!"_
You're (generally) adventuring in a medieval setting, your just general BO would over-power any "period smell" to the point that it would make no difference.
@@fred_derf I'm aware that the actual difference is negligable in most cases. There are still areas where menstruating women are cautioned not to go, however. And we're talking about a fantasy world with creatures that may have even more sensitive senses. I don't think it's necessary to include that level of detail, all I said was it's an interesting thought, a distinction that's not just a penalty on certain rolls.
@@lauraw2526 I really think they would smell blood. especially if said adventurers make a point to bathe regularly.
i would be casting prestidigitation(or asking the spellcaster to do it) every 5 minutes haha. But as we are playing a fantasy game i just make my uterus dissappear x)
I take the cheats way out, My characters sexuality is always "Bard"
Love these, and as a married man, that was the smartest plan with the way you handled story 2 lol
I'm pan and I've had characters who are straight, bi, homosexual etc and their sexualities don't really have much (if any) impact on the game. As with the poster in the first story, I just like to go into detail about certain things about my character. Things such as are they left/right handed, their favourite foods, their sexuality, or even if they prefer function over fashion in their clothing. It's just something that fleshes out my characters in my head.
That said, never once has any of my characters sexualities ever been an issue in any of the games i've played in, and I'm lucky that I am with an awesome group. It must suck to have such push back on an aspect of youjr character that you put in just to feel more comfortable and connected
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@@someguy198 Ignore him. He's calling people groomer, so ya know.
Idk why but the homophobic DM story gave me an idea:
Not only have the only gay character get constantly hit on by women, but have all the straight characters be constantly rejected. Eventually, it's revealed a trickster deity is just messing with the party for shits and giggles. 😂
😂😂😂😂😂 i LOVE this
1st story.
I'm upset on the OP's behalf.
You know when i clicked on this video menstrual cycles in dnd was the last thing i thought of seeing today great episode tho
The Bane thing made me think of how endo would affect a character. Like, the way I experienced that would be similar to a lvl 4 exhaustion, and needing a health potion every four hours not to make it a 5. For eight days, every four to six weeks. Long rests don't improve the exhaustion, but they do now need 12 hours to count. Roll at the start of every cycle on if you need twice as much food, or a quarter of your usual ration. Passive perception gets maxed as most scents, sounds, sensations turn into sandpaper straight to the brain. All motivations and alignments are replaced with the all-consuming urge to get whatever is between the character and that sweet, sweet, twelve-hour nap over and done with as quickly and permanently as possible.
There are potions to reduce all these effects and minimize how often they happen, but they are not available everywhere in the world. There are rituals of sacrifice that might help, but they can only be performed twice.
Not saying to implement that standard into every game, just saying that, if you wanna implement a curse, translating some lived experiences into game mechanics seems a an easy shortcut.
I literally made my first D&D character a lesbian because I’m a lesbian
inb4 someone decides their character has irritable bowel syndrome, and decides this randomly affects their character negatively
As a penalty for your period, a straight -2 (or -1) would be much easier to handle than having to roll 1d4 every time. Seems needlessly complicated.
Oh, yeah. and pretty weird. But I like Amy's explanation of it having negatives to some things and bonuses to others for a few days every month (maybe some kind of bonus to intimidate or against checks made for fear or charm because your emotions are apparently so high that they're affecting your character). It's a level of detail I wouldn't ever want to bother with on MY character, but as the DM I guess I'd be fine with it. Idk how REALISTIC it would be. I'm not a woman, so I have no personal experience, but most of my friends are, some of whom I've known for decades, so I've seen people with all sorts of periods from the more stereotypical "emotional and angry and sore" (which is the sort I assume someone would be roleplaying if they were going to add a mechanical change to their character) to one friend who says she basically never feels anything. But yeah, idk. It's a level of detail that most players I've played with would never want to bother with.
For the 1st story I'll admit at first I was like "that isn't so bad." I mean with the how being hit on by barmaids things my first thought is "Well he is an aristocrat and those characters tend to be very "man pretty". How did the others look? Etc. I even don't find the head mistress proposing them for doing "the deed" as a dealbreaker." Since i can see that being used for a sorta comedic relief thing. Even in the case of the other noble guy trying to marry of their daughter made sense to me.
Then the bomb that is all happened in ONE session. AND the DM railroaded the player. That is when I had to back away slowly and say "nuh uh i'm good." This person is truly terrible.
As for the 2nd thing I am also a man. So i also will decline to comment.
My guy is our DM when we play & sexual encounters are left way more vague, like lead up story, then fade to black as they go into their room for the night or whatever... maybe a silly comment or two from the other players, but that's it. It's best to keep it vague, we think, so no one gets uncomfortable.
No homosexuality in a fantasy world? Umm, have you ever seen the kind of stuff some bards hookup with?
First person, go back to the store with the DM and tell EVERY SINGLE PERSON what that person said to you. They will either get blacklisted or you know that establishment is not to be trusted.
I think there should be a benefit of "rage" with any class during the characters period 😂
As a cis dude, can't speak directly on the period thing. But I have to wonder, like... how often do tables cover having to take a shit? How often do tables cover proper bathing and hygiene outside of the quick reference to needing a a soak after weeks on the road? Do you cover food allergies? Does the group stock up on sun screen?
It's just... yes, each of these individual things can be funny or interesting to bring up in certain moments. They can add some wild complications to a scene (Imagine being in a tense negotiation with the Thieves Guild and all of sudden you have to take a huge deuce). But the idea that it HAS to be addressed and that it's going to have a fairly steep MECHANICAL impact, that's just weird. At most, it might be disadvantage on a check or two.
But for the majority of these, we can just assume they're getting taken care of "off screen". The same way we all treat how many basic arrows we have.
Exactly! It's way too detailed and personal. I'd be fine reading about it in a fantasy novel(as long as it wasn't TOO graphic) but don't need it at a gaming table.
At my table, half of us are from the underdark (2 drow and a deep gnome), so we make some offhanded comments about sunscreen and tinted glasses to help with the whole "Sun" thing. But it's not any sort of maintenance required, it's just a thing used to handwave the mechanical annoyances of those races.
As for allergies, some of us have them. My golden dragonborn is allergic to mint because I thought it'd be funny. Fire boy's body doesn't like the cold mintiness. But, again, it's not a big deal. Just a very minor character trait for fun RP. And never obstructive to gameplay
When Duke pushed the mic away: SMARTEST MAN ALIVE!! Nicely done sir! 👍
Idk why but I saw this video in my subscription feed and wanted to watch it, but when I refreshed the page, all my other subbed videos were there but this one was nowhere to be found. Even went to the OneShotQuesters TH-cam channel under the videos tab and it did not show up. Only managed to find this video again after seeing it in the end title cards of another of your videos.
TH-cam "randomly" hiding content again. Thaaaanks youtube /s
Omg the options for period effects are so wild. You could make an entire d100 table for players to roll off of lol
Period Wild Mage boutta be crazy
OKAY the Bane of the Menstual Cycle tho, I've actually done that! Not that exactly but a mate when we were teenagers, she brought it up as a joke. She was on her period, she was PMSing, and she was very much the classic "I want snacks and something to yell at" kind of PMSer, and she was coincidentally playing a barbarian, so as a joke we buffed her rage and doubled her need for rations for that session, and it became a thing, every 4th session (we played weekly) when she was on her period we did the same. Another player asked to join the fun with her character and she did, she got -1 to WIS and CHA because she was crying constantly but +2 to DEX because she had hormonally impacted hypermobility of the joints and she thought it was a funny way to personalize it to her character. We played the rest of the campaign that way and it was hilarious.
I also had a mechanic for a pregnant player once where they basically rolled for moodswings, it was a fun way to make what could have been a really stressful time for her a bit easier. There really is a table for every player it seems xD that guy in the story was kinda creepy tho
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For most of my characters, sexual orientation is unknown. Mostly because I didn't feel it was a relevant part of the character creation process. Especially compared to height, personality, build, favourite meal, outstanding physical features (oddities, tattoos, piercings, etc). But I do have a few characters with determined preferences (which I never had the opportunity to discuss in game).
I think the worst dnd experience I had was when I was playing a character in the combat wheelchair (for the first time I was just trying figure out the mechanics) and one of the other players kept on having their character attempt to “cure” me like I think? they were making fun of the ableists who are against it but honestly it was very uncomfortable for me I wish they just like. Didn’t 😭 if you’re gonna explore a flaw with your character at the expense of another I recommend you ask the other players first because it was not fun as a disabled person having an able bodied person mock ableism somehow still at my expense 😭
For the last story, as a women myself, i simply do not understand why anyone would want to have that mechanic unless it's a fetish. It's not really the negative rolls he came up with since for me pms can cause problems physically and socially so I'd fall into that all negative category. It's more of the fact that they wanted it which makes me uncomfortable because it feels like it's a fetish thing. I've been in campaign where they eanted over realism and not one person ever brought up the menstrual cycle.
Thanks for providing your input on these crazy stories, Wife!
I think that's what Duke was asking for?
im sorry, but i just love the way duke acted after the second story. puts phone down, moves mic away, doesnt open his mouth once
OK in regards to the second story, the bane of the menstrual cycle kinda describes me whenever I’m having Dementer is eat the inside of my uterus (which is literally happening right now. Twice in a row I had debilitating cramps that just left me frozen in place for sometime, and I am still experiencing sad cramps. I am only on day two of this, so this hurts like hell.)
I try to hook up with a mimic
My Druid teammates killed me
Then i came Back to life
I am so happy my first dm was queer
8:51 all of my D&D chars have been pan besides one.
and that was because he was a feral childman whose soul was ripped from his body and went out into the world to reap souls for his father to grow strong enough to free himself along with freeing his mom (A cleric) and bringing back his own soul.
sounds like a running joke to me i would laugh and keep going along with it
That first DM would have fallen to pieces with some of the guys I've played RPG with. I remember one guy was full Tek-Knight (from the comic, not the TV show). He actually played it really well. There's a sentence I never thought I would write.
*LMFAO this is hilarious on both ends honestly*
I have a ttrpg horror story. So one time during our school dnd session our dm was out so we decided to do a one-shot. So me, and few others from our campain were ready to go. Someone walks in who wants to join. We asked if they wanted us to help set up a character due to them being new. They said no, and we asked to view the character. It was a skylanders oc. Im not kidding. We told him that we have to set up a character closer to dnd and said we could try to homebrew something. They refused, we tried again trying to help set something up but again refused. We started the one-shot since we dont have much time since its at school. So we move forward, going through the story. He get to a point where we are near a graveyard going to the place where we have to go. We get into a fight with zombies or something like that. They problem player uses his "weapon" which was immensely over powered, basically allowing them to both fly, it glows, and seperates then goes back together to name a few. We continue on, the player obviously very bored at what were doing. We continue on to finish the one-shot. It was a tad annoying because we tried to homebrew something because the sword seems cool and what-not, but the skylanders oc doesn't really work with the dnd world.
For the character on their period - 1 extra rage per day for any race. 😂 &/or 1 extra d4 damage. Maybe a bit of exhaustion after, though. 😅
Two thoughts on the second story... It might be an interesting topic to address in a fantasy book with female warriors. At a table, with other humans... very unlikely, for the same reason I wouldn't want to know how other characters go to the bathroom or have sex. Could be a very interesting topic - to read about - because of whatever race that character is. At a table, I just want to kill things and convince NPCs to do things for my party.
So Duke I've always enjoyed your DND reddit stories (they've been a guilty pleasure of mine for awhile) however I do have a question. Why are there not more stories per video? There's only one or two for each video. If it's a time constraint or something I'll completely understand as a few of these reddit story videos are usually 30min-1hour. But I enjoy you and Wife so much I can't help but want to see more! 😁 Terrible problem to have I know.
Sometimes there isn’t enough interesting stories to tell. Also ALOT of the stories submitted are very SA heavy which can be very uncomfortable for audience members and myself. I would love to do more stories per video but there just isnt enough to do every week 😕
@@OneShotQuesters sadly true enough that the most often posted stories are definitely uncomfortable to listen or read and I can't imagine trying to sift through them. (I don't read Reddit myself for keeping my mental health and so greatly appreciate your struggle in sifting through them because I have enjoyed the content you DO post) Perhaps a move to more wholesome stories and great DND moments? (I speak from ignorance because again I try and avoid Reddit so don't know if there are more wholesome stories than non- wholesome ones). Either way thank you for reaching out and answering the question of a simple fan of your content.
I'm a writer. Every character I make has one piece of me in them. Be it a personality trait, a flaw, a belief or something in their past. It's a great way to connect to them and let's me figure out motivation way easier.
DM forcing characters to be straight.....not okay. If the DM had said this is in the rules for my setting "being gay is taboo" then maybe, but that wasn't stated in the start of session zero so screw that DM forcing their view on the player
I gotta say though that Banished Squire Duke raising the ranks of nobility until they become King Duke sounds like an awesome D&D Noble Knight backstory. Even if the campaign ends early and they only achieve the rank of Duke Duke
Boy, this episode was a doozy 😂
Everything else aside, the idea of a female barbarian getting a buff for being on her period and basically being in permanent rage because of PMS without needing to actively be fighting something sounds pretty badass.
Duke rolled well on his intelligence by choosing to keep quiet about the second story.
The first thing I thought about the second case, was that there are women serving in the military, there are women flying fighting airplanes. There are also female athletes, artists that train like elite athletes (dancers, acrobats etc) and Olympic female athletes. All these people have to have an extremely high physical performance, and they achieve that without being hindered by their periods. It's only natural that an adventurer has the same high performance. Also, dysmenorrhea is not something many women have consistently.
I know negative story gets more attention from the algorithm but i gotta say I much rather hearing about amazing game moments and funny stuff over those "horror stories"
Listening to that sponsor promo got me thinking: am I crazy, or does Duke sound like Wiz and Boomstick from Screw Attack (Death Battle)? It can't be him, right?
Nope, they're voiced by Ben Singer and Chad James, nevermind. Weird similarity though.
As a player, I've only played heterosexual men because that's what I am. As a DM, I've played both sexes with varying sexual orientations. My experience as a player is more intimate, so I'm more comfortable playing my own sex. It's different as a DM because it feels more like writing a story. However, I might one day try my hand at playing a gay character just for fun. I refuse to play a woman though, because I wouldn't be able to connect with her and act appropriately.
In regards to DM from the first story...didnt realize Mike Pence played D&D
You have nothing to be ashamed of.
@@FrejthKing what? Im making a comment that the DM sounds like hes a freak like Mike Pence. Im not saying Im the DM from the 1st story
@@douglaslangley9251no need to be modest,its your world.
@@douglaslangley9251 Ignore him. He's calling people groomers, so it's pretty obvious what he is.
@@fluffymonster396 yeah I saw that in the other thread, dude went mask off lol
I don’t get why someone would make being gay a part of their character?
Sex has never come up any of the campaigns I’ve played in.
What’s the situation? “I use Eldridge blast on the monster , then I use my extra action to remark to Aragon that he butt looks good in that armor.”
Seems pretty pointless.
I agree with wife on the last one. Also, I feel like adding period mechanics is like adding stamina or pain nerfs during battles (since as a battle continues your stamina decreases and as you’re damaged pain affects you). Thinking of all that would just slow the game down immensely though, and can take away from the fantasy worlds you’re creating.
However, if there was a nerf to the character when they had their period, I do like the idea of giving a buff to even things out. I like the buffs wife mentioned, but I think another good one would be to describe that their terrible periods has made the player more tolerant to exhaustion and pain and such in general, and give them a +1d4 when not on their period (or something similar).
I know how we solve this period problem .... Every time it comes up she gets a barbarian style rage and advantage due to unsurmountable anger 🤣🤣🤣